“of one's own”

The following 9 entries include the term of one's own.

have a mind of one's own

idiom

: to have one's own ideas and make one's own choices about what should be done often used figuratively

in a league of one's own

idiom

: better than anyone else at doing something

in a world of one's own

idiom

: spending so much time thinking about something that one does not notice what is happening

in the comfort of one's own home

idiom

: at home

of one's own accord

idiom

used to indicate that someone does something because he or she wants to, not because someone has asked the person or forced him or her to do it

of one's own making

idiom

: caused by one's own actions

of one's own volition

idiom

: because one wants to : voluntarily, willingly

out of one's own pocket

idiom

: using one's own money

seed/seeds of one's own destruction

idiom

: something that eventually causes one to fail, be destroyed, be ruined, etc.


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